Shailaja Lall

General Corporate & Insurance

Ms. Shailaja Lall is an Equity Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and headsthe Insurance & Reinsurance practice of the firm. She has worked extensively in the fieldof insurance law for over 20 years and is recognised as a leading practitioner ofinsurance law in India with remarkable domain expertise.

Shailaja experience includes advising insurers, reinsurers, insurance intermediaries andother financial services entities on a full range of non-contentious and contentiousinsurance matters. She also advices extensively on key regulatory developmentsimpacting the sector, including PE investment, licensing of insurance intermediaries,corporate agency arrangements, group insurance arrangements and sale of insurancethrough e-commerce platforms. She works with many of the marqee and most-respectedcompanies throughout the insurance sector.

The Legal 500, 2018-21 has recognised Shailaja as a “Leading Individual” for Insurance,which quotes “As a practice head Shailaja Lall is a key name to note for non-contentiousmatters”. She has also been ranked by Chambers and Partners, 2018-21 for insurancematters and it states, “Shailaja Lall both heads the team and takes the leading role inmost of its key mandates, enjoying market recognition as a “very bright” practitionerwho is equally at home in both the transactional and regulatory spheres.

Shailaja was the Vice Chair of the Lex Mundi Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group(2012-16) and a member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce andIndustry’s (FICCI) Insurance and Pensions Committee (2014-15).

B.SL. LL.B., ILS Law College, Pune”